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Created by James on May 03, 2012 14:54:46
Last update: May 03, 2012 14:54:46
History.js gracefully supports the HTML5 History/State APIs (pushState, replaceState, onPopState) in all browsers. For HTML4 browsers it will revert back to using the old onhashchange functionality. All major browsers are supported.
This is a simple test page to get started:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test History</title>
...
Note: state url must be provided for IE to generate a unique hash. YOu can prefix the state url with '?' ('#' does not work).
Created by James on February 02, 2012 15:51:47
Last update: February 02, 2012 15:51:47
Arista is a simple and very convenient tool to convert video between common formats. Below are some screenshots:
Created by James on May 19, 2011 16:02:40
Last update: May 19, 2011 16:05:05
Finally, MathJax makes showing math equations in the browser a reality! Here are some simple demos.
A simple example:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Math...
Add HTML styling for Firefox:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Math...
Created by James on July 04, 2009 16:30:40
Last update: January 11, 2011 21:21:59
If you are looking for a solution for a progress bar, I direct you to the following resources: Bare Naked App provides a simple and elegant solution based on pure CSS with two images. You control the percentage of completion through the background-position attribute of the CSS. HTML:
<img src="/images/percentImage.png" alt="... CSS: img.percentImage { background: white url(/imag... Images: (percentImage.png) (percentImage_back.png) WebAppers extended the above solution with JavaScript. They also added several colored images: JQuery UI has a built-in progress bar widget. However, if you want to get to understand some of the foobar needed to get CSS to work (in general) through this example, stay with me for the rest of this note. Initially I was thinking, a progress bar should be easy: just make...
Created by James on September 07, 2010 03:11:39
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:28:33
I didn't know how hard it was to vertically align something to the middle until I had to do it. An excellent writeup about the various techniques (or should I say hacks?) to achieve this is here: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/vertical-centering-with-css/ Here I present a technique with the help of jQuery. To make it simple, what I'm doing is to display a single line of text in the middle of the page instead of at the top. The markup is made simple because the logic is moved to JavaScript. There are two requirements to make this work: The parent container uses relative positioning jQuery code added to re-position the content with absolute positioning
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <title>Vert... For some reason, the following code did not work although...
Created by James on July 19, 2009 20:51:23
Last update: January 11, 2011 20:14:18
If CSS3 border-image is properly supported, making a rounded corner box is very easy. You just need a round corner image like this: The following markup:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ... would render like this (try it in Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome): However, IE as of version 8.0 does not support border-image . So until border-image is reliably supported in all major browsers, we still have to rely on tried and true tricks to make it work. In general, I found three general categories of tricks to make rounded corners: Good old tables. This trick creates a table of 9 cells and uses the 8 cells on the perimeter to render the borders and rounded corners. The central cell is used for...
Created by James on September 28, 2010 19:16:22
Last update: September 28, 2010 19:16:22
Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games.
URL: http://processingjs.org/
Created by James on June 30, 2010 19:04:45
Last update: July 03, 2010 21:24:33
Technically, file upload cannot be handled by Ajax, because XMLHttpRequest (XHR) does not handle file inputs. All techniques not using Flash rely on an invisible iframe as the upload form submit target. JavaScript then grabs the response content from the iframe and present it, giving the same illusion as Ajax. webtoolkit AIM The technique by webtoolkit is very simple. It involves 3 simple steps: include the AIM script, implement the start/finish JavaScript functions, and add an onsubmit handler to the normal file upload form. The hooked up form looks like:
<head> <script type="text/javascript" src="webt... The AIM script is also quite simple: /** * * AJAX IFRAME METHOD (AIM) * http... The above code only supports HTML responses. In order to support JSON responses, the above...
Created by James on May 07, 2010 04:13:14
Last update: May 07, 2010 04:35:03
It seems that the key to aligning a checkbox with its label lies in the line-height property of the label. This simple HTML snippet aligns well:
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <style typ... which is rendered like this: Change the font size of the label to 12px throws off the alignment: label.checkbox { font-size: 12px; di... In case 1, the height of the checkbox is 13px with 3px top and bottom margin, for a total of 19px , which is exactly the height of the label div. As can be seen from Firebug : Checkbox layout Label layout In case 2, the height of the label div shrinks to 15px , while the height of the checkbox remains the same: Checkbox layout Label layout And...
Created by James on October 11, 2009 21:15:53
Last update: October 11, 2009 21:19:39
Many techniques for making rounded corners do not work well when the element being rounded is displayed on a background with a different color (or multiple colors).
Example 1: Nifty Cube with JavaScript
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://www.html.i...
Example 2: modx Simple Rounded Corner Box
<html>
<head>
<title>Round Corner</title>
...
Example 3: CSS3 (does not work in IE)
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ...
Example 4: This is one that actually works ! The nifty corner technique can be tweaked to be background friendly, although the JavaScript version didn't work for some reason.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" ...
